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The United States is the greatest threat to world peace. That’s the finding of an end-of-the- year, WIN/Gallup International survey of people in 65 countries.

Of the 66,000 people polled, just under a quarter named Uncle Sam as the greatest threat to world peace.

Other menaces didn’t even come close: 8 percent named Pakistan, putting that country in second place, while 6 percent named China. A mere 4 percent found Iran threatening — which tied it with Israel.

As we were reading the results, we couldn’t help thinking we had seen it all before. And when we looked, we found a 2006 Pew Research Center poll of 17,000 people from 15 different countries that found something very similar: More people thought the US intervention in Iraq a threat to world peace than Iran.

Back then, of course, the press summarized the findings this way: It’s all because of Bush. As Britain’s Guardian newspaper put it in its lead sentence on the survey: “George Bush’s six years in office have so damaged the image of the US that people worldwide see Washington as a bigger threat to world peace than Tehran.”

In 2008, President Obama would go on to campaign about how Bush’s policies had harmed America’s standing in the world, at one point suggesting that attitudes in the Muslim world would be transformed simply by his election.

It hasn’t turned out that way, as these Gallup numbers suggest. Maybe we’d do better to accept the real message of all these global surveys: There are many people in this world who don’t like the US and will regard us as a threat no matter who’s president.

Do you agree?

Damn right the US is the biggest threat to world peace! Everywhere the ugly stars and stripes flies, blood and death follow! And then we wonder why we're getting hit with so many wildfires and hurricanes and disasters? God has judged this nation and found her wanting! We are getting our well-deserved punishment!

Since the United Nations determined in 1960 that colonialism
is a crime against humanity, there is no longer a need for plebiscites. The solution is to give Puerto Rico her
sovereignty.

But being the United States government does not want to, it
continues to advocate the use of plebiscites to find out what Puerto Ricans
want.Even if 100% of Puerto Ricans
would want to continue being a US colony, Puerto Rico would still be obligated
to accept her sovereignty to then decide what she wants to do.

The only thing these plebiscites are good for is to divide
Puerto Ricans.A Puerto Rican didn’t
invade us to make us a colony.When will
we understand that we need to unite?

This is why we must peacefully protest at least 3 times a
year until Puerto Rico is decolonized!

I lover how peole will gladly quote the US Government about the ways it has helped people, yet, ignore the US government's own words (or declassified memos) concerning how it hurts people....even innocent US citizens. Some morons think spying on innocents, your allies and war for profit, are somehow 'good things'. Thankfully, most people know better.

Unfortunately most Americans don't know better. They have been asleep for a very long time. If our government declared martial law their only concern would be whether it would interfere with their commute to work.

How can any free thinking, semi=intelligent person NOT agree? Of course the US government is the biggest threat to world peace. If other countries don't offer tributes to the UN, World Bank or any other Agent of the US Government, then there is hell to pay. Funny how, after Gulf War 1, the US did nothing to Hussein, until he threatened to start using 'petro-Euros" instead of 'petro-dollars'...then all of a sudden, he became a big target. Iran is the same....they have the right to pursue civilian nuclear technology (as signatories to the Nuclea Non-Proliferation Treaty...that paper that says all nuclear capable countries promise not to blow up the world), yet because they would not sell their vast oil reserves to the US and our interests, all of a sudden, civilian engineers and scientists are killed, and Israel is rattling its sabre whinning about 'safety'. Anyone wanna bet the 'talks' with Iran focused mostly on how they would sell the US oil? I am sure spying on your ALLIES, spying on your own people (even the 'innocent ones') and you know...lying about it all even when proof is presented...doesn't help the US in the poll. Only a fool mistakes his patriotism as love for his government.

Gee, and yet with every global manmade and/or natural disaster, the entire world knows EXACTLY to whom and where to turn for help or intervention or whatever else is needed! Isn't that just friggin' wonderful how everyone automatically looks in OUR direction whenever some mess needs to be cleaned-up - yet, they hate our guts?

For once I'd LOVE for the USA and it's people to tell the rest of the world to go eff off the next time some tinpot dictator feels like invading a neighbor, or the next time a tsunami wipes a small country off the map, or an earthquake buries several thousand in some armpit of the Third World, or the next time some group of muslims feels like exterminating some other group of muslims - ALL of whom hate our guts anyway.

The USA sure does an awful lot of GOOD in this world that goes completely unappreciated and even reviled. The next time there's some world-shaking event, the USA should tell those in need to learn Mandarin and go ask those notorious humanitarians in China for some aid. Lots of luck with that.

@Think4Yourself@Brewski1957"what has the United States done for this world?" You mean outside of defeating fascism in Europe, military imperialism in Asia, containing communism, and creating a world order where free democratic people can live with relative peace, leading to arguably the most peaceful and prosperous era in human history.

I think we, in our foreign policy agenda, often approach complicated circumstances with the best intentions, however, the results are sometimes making matters worse. We meddle where we should not, giving other nations the feeling we like to flex our military muscles, promote our own political agenda, and self designate ourselves as international law enforcement. Our media tends to excite passions, and exasperate and intensify potential conflicts, giving them more attention and emotional attention. We recently, under Obama, made great hay about gays in the Olympics, promoting the homosexual agenda, which is at odds with the sovereign values of other countries. Actually, except for Obama, liberals, and progressives, millions of Americans hold homosexuality in disdain despite the daily propaganda by Hollywood, the media, and some politicians to promote it. As a country, we export pornography and violent entertainment through the Hollywood sewer into other countries around the world, further eroding the wholesomeness of American ideals and values. Does anyone wonder why some people in other countries no longer admire us as a nation?

@John Flanagan you can't just boil down the mind boggling complexity of geopolitics and all the factors influencing global opinion of the United States to sexuality. In an absurd and ironic twist, you refuse to heed your own advice about approaching complicated circumstances.